At 05:57 PM 2/16/2005 -0800, Dave Crocker wrote:
On Wed, 16 Feb 2005 17:56:07 -0700, David MacQuigg wrote:
> I would like to get comments on the article
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Email_Authentication
David,
i'll try to take a look, over the next few days.
you might want to take a look at:
<http://bbiw.net/specifications/draft-crocker-email-arch-02.html>
Dave,
I got the latest draft -03 from ietf. Excellent work!! The only thing I
see that might need some discussion is the inclusion of Packet Switches in
the same category as User Mediators (section 2.2.3). It seems to me these
deserve a footnote at best, explaining that they are transparent to mail
protocols, and can be ignored in these discussions. I apologize if this
has already been discussed, as I have not had time to review earlier
discussions.
I've made some changes in my Wikipedia article, to make it conform better
with the terminology in your draft. I put the changed section temporarily
at
http://www.ece.arizona.edu/~edatools/etc/Email_Authentication_01.htm This
is the only section I have some doubts about, so if you don't have time to
look at the whole article, just this section would help. Comments from you
or others on this list will be appreciated. I'm shooting for as much
simplicity as possible without missing something important.
Is there any work yet on a standard for how Mediators should handle
authentication of the sender ( SRS, Resent-From, ???) ? Seems to me a
simple standard here would get us past the petty arguments over details. I
really don't care which method we chose, as long as it works. I've assumed
a very simple method in my article, but with a footnote that this section
should be changed when we have a real standard.
-- David
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